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To: Red Scouser who wrote (56026)	4/8/1999 10:05:00 AM
From: rupert1	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97611

Neil: +++OT+++++ Maybe this should be PM. But I was associated with a very large firm of accountants in Liverpool which were the auditors of the Overhead Railway. In those days everybody worked Saturday mornings but were allowed to wear sports jackets! Two of my contemporaries decided to clock in at the OR to do routine audit checks because they could bunk off from there easily to get to Anfield. They were checking rolling stock numbers in a leisurely way - counting the trains as they passed. There was a problem with numbers so they went to the sheds. More problems. they called the senior partner from the firm. End of the story - massive fraud - selling off rolling stock, manipulating ticket sales (subtracting "o") etc. It reached the House of Commons and led to the close down of the railway. Irony is they are now talking about introducing a new long tram to run along that route and other routes in the city.